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Article: Hepatitis B and injecting-drug use among American Indians - Montana, 1989-1990.
- Article from:
- MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Article date:
- January 10, 1992
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From November 1989 through March 1990, five cases of serologically confirmed acute hepatitis B (HB) (*) among American Indians from two Montana Indian reservations (combined population: 6300) were reported by Indian Health Service (IHS) clinic staff to the Billings IHS Area Office. In comparison, during 1986--1988, an average of six HB cases among American Indians were reported annually among persons residing both on reservations and statewide (1990 population of American Indians in Montana: 47,679). Four of the five persons with acute HB reported histories of injecting-drug use (IDU).
The IHS attempted to identify close contacts (i.e., household, sexual, and ...